report no.: 187
informant: AA
source: Joseph Roth, What I Saw: Reports from Berlin 1920–33
location: University
date: 1933

the German professor, falsely depicted as an absent-minded dreamer who forgets his umbrella, but who is in fact the most dangerous (the most dogmatic) enemy of European civilisation: the inventor of the philological equivalent of poison gas, who is paid to disseminate the idea of Prussian superiority, the noncommissioned officer of the university which in the time of Wilhelm II became a barracks.